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Recently, I decided to take some time to go back over some of my notes from a book that radically changed my life.
To be honest, I enjoy love marking up books. I feel that when I get a book, its only half finished and I get to complete the other half.
Libraries – nice, but not great.
I like love am a little obsessive about reading, so checking out books is good, but I can’t mark it up for myself. I am constantly going back and erasing my scribbles and underlines before I have to rush to get them back before late fees accrue!
My personal copy of Sex God is much highlighted and underlined.
What I am lax on doing is taking the time to go back and really study what I have underlined and highlighted. I am so excited about reading, that I speed into another book, and don’t
SOAK IT UP
and
MAKE IT A PART OF MY LIFE
So I thought this would be a great time to go back and re-read my notes and share them with you.
Lucky for me, this book was life changing, and many of the principles have stayed with me. That said, I really want right thinking about marriage and relationships to be part of my life.
I don’t think there is a better way than going back to my notes and taking another look. Maybe you can learn something from my notes as well.
All my notes are inspired from Sex God by Rob Bell
* Humans have a divine spark in them. We are not God – but we reflect who God is and what He is like.
* How you treat creation reflects how you feel about the Creator.
* With every decision, gesture, conversation, action and attitude, we invite either heaven or hell to earth.
* There are 2 sides of sexuality: Our awareness of how cut off and disconnected we are and 2, all they ways we go about trying to reconnect.
*Sex is only ONE PART of our sexuality. Sexuality is how we strive to reconnect with the world, with each other and with God.
* We are more than just a “ball of urges”. Animals have to fulfill their every primal urge. We as human beings do not. We are more than just the “urge” We are temples of the Holy Spirit.
* The low view of Sex is that we cannot control our urges and have to behave like animals – When people say ” we have to have sex before marriage” they claim “realism”. It’s more like saying ” Ahh, well, humans are just like animals you know”. A Low view of Sex.
* How we live matters. Every Action continues the creation of the world. What Kind of World Are We Creating? What Kind of World Am I Creating?
*Lust always promises something it can’t deliver.
* In the Garden of Eden, when Adam & eve gnosh down on the forbidden fruit, it’s about their dissatisfaction with what God had given them…”It wasn’t good enough”.
*Lust comes from a deep lack of satisfaction from life. We have to think about and reflect on the significance of this…When we aren’t at peace – content, satisfied with who we are, where we are – who we are with, where our life is…the radar goes on…our spidey sense starts tingling (we are sensory creatures). Something WILL Catch our Attention.
More notes from Sex God in my next post. (We haven’t even gotten to the really good stuff yet!)
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This is a great book, one I read a while back, and now that I am reading your notes I am going to go read it again. This will fit well into a class I am teaching on marriage at church this summer. Thanks for bringing this back to my mind. i look forward to your upcoming notes on the book.
Blessings.
Thanks Corey! I have 5 pages of notes in my journal. Not sure if all of them will make the blog – but the book is definitely worth the read. Like I mentioned above – its one of those life changers for me! Thanks for the comment!
TMB
This is a great book, one I read a while back, and now that I am reading your notes I am going to go read it again. This will fit well into a class I am teaching on marriage at church this summer. Thanks for bringing this back to my mind. i look forward to your upcoming notes on the book.
Blessings.
Thanks Corey! I have 5 pages of notes in my journal. Not sure if all of them will make the blog – but the book is definitely worth the read. Like I mentioned above – its one of those life changers for me! Thanks for the comment!
TMB
Awsome post! I especially liked: * In the Garden of Eden, when Adam & Eve gnosh down on the forbidden fruit, it’s about their dissatisfaction with what God had given them…”It wasn’t good enough”.
Michael and I have this conversation often, about how sin results from thinking that God is holding out on us in some way. That dissastisfaction that comes with thinking we deserve more than what we have in that moment.
Annalea
Awsome post! I especially liked: * In the Garden of Eden, when Adam & Eve gnosh down on the forbidden fruit, it’s about their dissatisfaction with what God had given them…”It wasn’t good enough”.
Michael and I have this conversation often, about how sin results from thinking that God is holding out on us in some way. That dissastisfaction that comes with thinking we deserve more than what we have in that moment.
Annalea
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